Review of Logic basics

- First, let's review some basics…for working with Logic Pro.…There are also some studio essentials that you might…want to configure to work with Logic,…like an audio interface or mini keyboard.…When you open Logic for the first time,…it'll ask you to add at least one…track in the default state.…Let's create one software instrument for now.…You can see software instrument is selected…and number of tracks is one.…From here, let's click Logic X in the menu bar…and open Preferences by first selecting General.…

On General Preferences, our project handling tab…is selected and basically, there's a drop down menu…that will show us the various functions of Logic on startup.…You can have Logic do nothing, in which case…it's just open the application.…We can open our most recent project that we're working on,…open an existing project, create a new project…from a specific template, create a brand new…blank empty project, create a project using…a default template, or you can have Logic ask you…what you want it to do.…

Now we're going to go over to Advanced Preferences…

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4/8/2016

Electronic music is an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and sounds, from ambient, dub, acid house, trap, drum and bass, dubstep, and more. But whatever style you produce, Logic Pro can handle it. This powerful DAW is uniquely suited to capturing your creativity and expressing your sonic ideas. In this course, author Nate Mars shows you the core techniques professionals use to produce electronic music in Logic Pro.

He starts with building the foundation of the track—the drums. He shows how to program beats in Ultrabeat, utilize your own samples, and create drumbeats for a variety of genres. He then moves into creating basslines for house, trap, dubstep, and other genres, and getting a great deep sub-bass sound. He next moves into creating lead synth sounds, starting with Logic Pro's built-in Alchemy and Retro synths. He also goes into using samples, adding sound effects, and utilizing Apple's factory content. Then he pulls it all together and demonstrates ways to arrange the tracks, use creative effects, mix the tracks together, and use automation to finalize the mix. Chapter 6 covers sending your MIDI note and clock data to external synths from Logic Pro X—a fun way to experiment with analog sounds.